On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:09:32PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 01/20/2010 04:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >>> I'm uncomfortable with pushing Davide's patch into stable and possibly >>> causing regressions with unrelated applications. Can't a guest live >>> with a spurious interrupt? >>> >> Well guests mask/unmask vector on each interrupt, so this will trigger >> an irq storm I think. >> >> >>> It's not like they're unknown. >>> >> Depends on the device really. >> In theory, if they trigger at an unfortunate time this could cause >> crashes. >> >> > > I'd like confirmation on both of these before I push things to stable. I have observed the interrupt storm. We end up with interrupt being disabled. Crash is a theoretical issue. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
